It offers practical advice on how to identify, evaluate, and negotiate the purchase of a business, as well as tips for successfully growing and scaling the acquired company. Following ViewPoint’s capitulation, I bought a distribution company and used it as a platform for my own entrepreneurial efforts. A partir de conocimientos obtenidos en otros libros ahora entiendo que existen amplios catálogos de libros de negocios que simplifican las circunstancias económicas de las empresas estudiadas y proveen de información al lector que puede ser mal interpretada o no comparada con otras variables. As an entrepreneur myself who has built several businesses and experienced the pitfalls of building said businesses, this book is a sheer revelation!

It’s meant to be the resource that I needed when I started, so I could skip the startup phase, gain confidence, and move right into ownership of a profitable company. This book provides a comprehensive guide for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to acquire an existing business rather than starting from scratch. With jobs not being able to keep up with college graduate demand, entrepreneurship has never been more important. I took away a lot of general info to help my current business and will definitely revisit this book a few times in the near future. To this end, he advises new owners to reassure employees about job security and communicate the benefits of the new management.It’s an approach to entrepreneurship that provides the best odds for the outcome entrepreneurs want to achieve; namely running, and owning, a successful business that they can be passionate about and put their fingerprint on. Louis, where he received the Declaration of Accomplishment in Entrepreneurship award from the Skandalaris Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. To ensure all information is accurate and of value to you, we’ve designed a production system and a content review process that keeps this content close to the source and as factual as possible. Most of them rightly assumed I had very little capital to invest and tried to sell me a downward-trending bar or a laundromat. It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality.

Acquisition entrepreneurship is the next model to do business, and it requires a combined skill set found in entrepreneurs with a renewed vision. I really enjoyed learning about Walker's process and the many fascinating statistics he brings to prove why acquisition is normally the way to go.They were the people who took a product market fit business and turned them into large scale businesses. There weren’t any quality resources on the subject and my world-class MBA education hadn’t offered insight into this area.

Lesson learned: the kind of entrepreneurship I've most identified with and want to pursue wholeheartedly. There are a lot of people doing this, and they are unlocking trillions in value and living the entrepreneur lifestyle. I’ve also grown through add-on acquisitions, which has proven to be less expensive and more successful than driving growth exclusively through sales efforts. I needed a high-quality source of information for how to acquire an existing company, but it didn’t exist. The equity raise was oversubscribed, and within months of graduating from one of the top 10 incubator programs in the world we had beta trials inside many recognizable companies.It’s a really specific book for a very specific type of person and a very specific type of acquisitions. He shares his expertise on the process of finding, evaluating, and successfully running a business, offering practical advice and real-life examples.

Es difícil saber lo que no sabemos (y empieza a ser peligroso económicamente si nuestro medio o filtro de información tiene incentivos para mostrar un panorama muy positivo y nos incita a "tomar acción"). One of the challenges that new owners face, according to Deibel, is convincing existing employees that the transition will be seamless and potentially beneficial. cuadrantes de tipos de negocio que existen que es necesario identificar, enternable profitable, turnaround, high growt and platfom. I’ve acquired 6 companies over the last 10 years and made them more valuable than when I bought them.It taps into all areas of the business, including legal, financial, commercial, information technology, employment, and environmental aspects to identify any potential risks. Tipo de industria (producto, distribución o servicio), tipo de crecimiento, el tamaño de SDE y limitantes. Para opinar sobre si las consideraciones ideales hechas por el autor están cerca de la realidad necesitaría realizar mi propia investigación en temas prestatarios en México porque en el argumento del libro no solamente se parte de idealizar un entorno económico específico si no además en Estados Unidos donde como todos sabemos se cuenta con una mejor regulación que en México; pero claro está que la postura que tenga el gobierno en poder sobre el papel del ciudadano promedio en la economía nacional tiene un impacto en las variables a considerar por la Pyme. His work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review.